Batting for the empire
An exhaustive book provides the political, social and sporting backdrop to the 1912 triangular Test tournament between England, Australia and SA.
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Naivity, novelty and the writer's art
Imraan Coovadia finds the points of difference in two authors' approaches to writing.
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Does a virgin have to be female?
An alternate take on the Messiah's birth brings
modern women's issues into the picture.
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The wild life of a mild revolutionary
Erich Rautenbach begins this wild and somewhat melancholic memoir with his arrest by two drug-squad cops.
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Old magic and future worlds
Gwen Ansell rounds up some of the latest science fiction and fantasy releases.
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Multilayered but one-sided
It has much going for it, but Stephenson's stereotypical treatment of Muslim terrorists lets his latest novel down.
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Son of HAL feeds on fear
The Fear Index, a financial what-if, takes place entirely on the day that the Blair-Brown years officially ended: May 6 2010, election day.
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What might have been
Ivan Vladislavic plays not only with the idea of unwritten books or stories, but also with the idea of finishing itself.
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A bloody good read
This ultra-readable pop-historical epic is the fourth bulky instalment of a sequence about the rise of the Mongol khans.
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Conquering the epics
The creator of the popular Conqueror and Emperor series does immaculate detail through broad strokes
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